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A Forbidden Subgraph Characterization Problem And A Minimal-Element Subset Of Universal Graph Classes, Michael D. Barrus Mar 2004

A Forbidden Subgraph Characterization Problem And A Minimal-Element Subset Of Universal Graph Classes, Michael D. Barrus

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The direct sum of a finite number of graph classes H_1, ..., H_k is defined as the set of all graphs formed by taking the union of graphs from each of the H_i. The join of these graph classes is similarly defined as the set of all graphs formed by taking the join of graphs from each of the H_i. In this paper we show that if each H_i has a forbidden subgraph characterization then the direct sum and join of these H_i also have forbidden subgraph characterizations. We provide various results which in many cases allow us to exactly …